Mail requires multiple "get mail" clicks to download email

One click of "get mail" and the script appears to fire, but no emails are downloaded
A second click and the emails start to arrive.
But it sometimes takes another click to make sure all the available emails are downloaded from the server.
solutions, anyone?
thank you!

I have 4 accounts running, 2 POP and 2 IMAP, after doing some checking today with a mac engineer online, it appears that it is incoming mail only affected and only on the POP accounts. I had previously tried recreating the accounts but as from today even just quitting Mail and reopening no longer works... the engineer has had to exculate my call to a specialist who in turn has now had to send it off to a specialist team to work on. When I get results, I will post them in case it helps someone else.

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Hi
I am using Mail.app (v2.1) on 10.4.8 with a mac.com email address setup and am having problem receiving emails from just one person - that's right only one sender.
What happens is, the person sends the email and it arrives at the webmail interface (i.e. I can view the email using Safari) but the emails are not downloading to Mail.app like all others i receive, I have to login to .Mac webmail to read the emails this persons is sending to me.
At one stage while trying to solve this I had a "Rule" which would play a certain sound when email from this person arrives and Mail.app would play this sound but still didn't download the email.
I have tried synchronising the account and rebuilding the mailbox but am still not able to get Mail.app to download these emails.
Thanks for any help.
Gary
PowerBook G4 1.25GHz FW800 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I have had the same problem for over a year. Certian senders using my .MAC account get stuck on the .mac server. After a few days, a few of the emails may get through. Other emails to my .mac account will get through.
For me, this started over a year ago when there was an OS update. I noticed it started on this Ibook then continued to all other MACs as the updates where made. I too have rebuilt the mailbox and synced the accounts.
Where you able to fix your problem?
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Why is Mail not automatically downloading emails?

I have set prefs to download mail every minute or every 5 minutes and neither is happening unless I am sitting at the computer. If it is assleep - I am out for the day - the mail that comes in on my iPhone never downbloads until I click "get mail" on the desktop - makes it hard to delete any messages when I am away from home because I never klnow if it has downloaded at home.Comcast uses POP accounts and says it is an Apple problem. Anybody else finding this issue?

i have it also
where is everybody?
Do I have to go to another site ?

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I've been having this issue for a few weeks now. This is only happening on my .Mac account (I have other IMAP accts and they work fine).
Every so often, Mail decides to re-download all of my emails. And recently, mail completely bugged out and changed the sent date of large portion of my old sent emails to the 23rd of April. So now emails that I sent a long time ago, are all showing up as being sent this week!
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I used to find this happening with older version of OSX after I did my usual 6 month clean, wipe, re-install and resume.
It's possible that the file which keeps a track of message downloaded from the server is corrupt. Goto ~/Library/Mail where "~" is your home folder and then delete these files
Envelope Index
LSMMap2
DefaultCounts
Next goto each account ".mbox"
This is in ~/Library/Mail then a folder which contains your email address example "Mac-steve.jobs"
inside there should be a folder list something similar to this:
Junk.imapmbox
Sent Messages.imapmbox
INBOX.imapmbox
Drafts.imapmbox
Deleted Messages.imapmbox
Inside each of them is a folder, called "Messages" and also some files, delete the files but not the "Messages" folder.
When you reopen Mail it will be as if you opened it for the first time. See if the emails come in, if they do then it's more likely to be a setting in Mail or even possibly something that's happening at the remote email server.
In Mail Right or Control Click in the left hand panel and select "Get Info" a box will come up with a drop down selection at the top showing active email accounts, select the one you are having problems with, either a list of folders will come up or a big long list of email messages, depending on how many you have will depend on how long it takes for the list to update. Once it has, select all the emails and Select "Remove From Server" this will delete them all from the server so at least when you re-open Mail they don't all come in again.
Hope something in here helps
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I f i send a message to more than one person it hapens that a few of them do not get my adres when answering. First I thougt is was because i used templates, but this week it also hapened without using a template.

If you sent the email, it must have had the 'FROM' email address correctly inserted. I presume this is your email address.
If you want people to Reply to a specific email address which is different to the FROM email address, do either of the following:
'''To add a Reply-to email if different from the FROM email address in only that email.'''
Open new Write email
The auto selected will show a TO field
you can click on that to see a drop down selection of options.
Select the 'Reply-to' option.
'''This inserts a Reply-to in every email you send:'''
Tools > Account Settings
select the mail account name
It will say:
'Your Name': Your name should already be inserted here
'Email address': your mail account 'FROM' email address should already be here
'Reply-to Address:' Add the 'Reply-to' email address if different from 'Email Address'.
You could try inserting your email address in the auto Reply To Address field, to see if this overcomes issues for other people. It will do no harm, but should not be necessary.
click on OK
If the recipient receives the email then clearly it had the correct FROM and TO details.
No one can guess what is going on. They may be using different email clients or viewing via webmail. Your recipients need to check the source view of the email sent to them to check it has all the correct information. If they continue to have issues, they need to ask what is wrong with the email client or webmail server they are using.

Upgraded Panther to Tiger: now Mail won't download email from Sympatico

Hi there,
If someone wouldn't mind advising... I just ugraded my wife's powerbook from Panther to Tiger (10.4.9)... and even though her email settings are still the same (incoming server, outgoing server, etc.), Mail won't collect her email from the Sympatico site.
Do I have to get rid of her Mail prefs and re-boot? Or something? (if it's the former, which prefs exactly, and where are they?).
thanks,
Malcolm

You can always delete your account from Mail and re-create it... There are 2 kinds of account settings for a Sympatico account:
The "old ones" that have the same settings since Sympatico started 10 years ago:
Username: b1**##
Password: access password
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Outgoing mail (SMTP): smtp1.sympatico.ca
Port server 25 for Outgoing (SMTP)
Port server 110 for Incoming (POP3)
The other Sympatico e-mail is the enhance one with MSN. The settings are differents and the authentification is different. Any new Sympatico accounts since June 2004 are on that new plaform:
Username: [email protected]
Password: e-mail password
Incoming mail (POP3): pophm.sympatico.ca
Outgoing mail (SMTP): smtphm.sympatico.ca
Verify that your server is set to requires anthentiation with agin your Sympatico e-mail and Sympatico password;
Both servers, Outgoing and Incoming, require a secure connection (SSL)
If you are not sure witch is what try to login online at: http://www.sympaticomail.sympatico.ca it will tell you if can upgrade to new enhance e-mail or if you sign in like a Hotmail account if you are already enhance.
I hope this help....
Cheers

Please help. Mail will not download emails.

Please can someone help. Mail says that it's checking for email, but will not download anything, even though it shows that there are now 11 messages. This has been happening for over 24hrs. I have good wifi and 3G access and haven't changed any settings. The only difference in the last few days is updating OS via iTunes.

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If that doesn't work then try closing the Mail app completely : from the home screen (i.e.not with the Mail app 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the Mail app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
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Mac mail won't download my gmail anymore.

I upgraded to Mountain Lion and everything was fine for a couple of weeks. Now suddenly, for no apparent reason, mac mail can not download emails from my gmail account anymore. It's downloading emails from my business account just fine - but not gmail. I didn't change anything in the settings. It just stopped. Any clue why?

My hubby's computer did same thing on March 12, 2013. I tried many things, including 75 min with an Apple Genius who couldn't figure it out, but here is what finally worked:
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Try this solution for corrupt/problematic emails on your POP server... In OS X Mail, click on the In Box of the problem account in Get Info (Ctrl-I).
The Account Info window will show up and list all of the emails on the server.
Highlight the "Sender Unknown" "No Subject" emails in the list.
Click the Remove from Server button at the bottom of the window.
Before trying this I also tried:
1) Turn off Mail, shut down computer, unhook from electric for 5+ minute - then reboot computer & then reboot mail. No change occurred. So I moved to ...
2) I went to online server to see that messages were actually there that hadn't downloaded because my mail (lower left screen kept showig 103 emails downloading - even though they didn't - even got the little "ding" mail incoming sound) Emails were on my Frontier web page - but wouldn't download.
I went to Mailbox in Menu and went down to activate "REBUILD" - all it did was rebuild what was there and did not download the 103 emails on the server. No change occurred. So I moved to ...
3) Went to computer of another family member and sent to frontier acct (the one having problems) and Gmail acct. Gmail received the email but the frontier acct would not download the email I sent from other family computer that also has frontier acct.    No change occurred. So I moved to ...
4) Went into "home" > Library > Preferences> and found:   com.apple.mail.plist and pulled it to desktop. Still it would not download new emails. Then set up new mail acct using frontier acct info - it downloaded all the old ones, but still did not download new ones. ~ ~ Mac genious was frightened that I did this but I saw it on another forum as a possible solution. No change occurred. So I moved to ...
5) Made sure the little "offline" (wavey line) "~" was not present, indicating the acct was offline, even though I'd already intentionally taken it offline and then put it back online from the menu. No change occurred. So I moved to ...
6) Did a "force Quit" of mail by holding down "apple" and "option" buttons while hitting "esc" button. Still did not help.    No change occurred. So I moved to ...
Finally found a forum that suggested the "get info" and delete the Sender Unknown emails from server. This worked. I only listed all the other things I tried because they did work for some people, according to other forums, so I thought I'd save you searching all over and you can try them in any order, but if you do try them, I'd do #4 LAST since the "genius" was aghast that I'd tried this. Hope one of the "fixes" works for you.

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Thanks,
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From 9 March my Apple Mail refuses to download email from a POP3 connection. I use a MacBook air running 10.10.2. Without any success I have tried the following:
restored from TM backup prior to 9 March - get mail seems to perform correctly but no more emails appear
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Mar 15 11:46:22 Warwicks-iMac.local Mail[3677] <Debug>: NSStreamEventHasBytesAvailable -- socket: 0x6080002b3e00 -- thread: 0x61000066abc0
Mar 15 11:46:22 Warwicks-iMac.local Mail[3677] <Debug>: Unscheduled input stream from run loop after waiting to be readable -- socket: 0x6080002b3e00 -- thread: 0x61000066abc0
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Extract 1: this for account exhibiting the inability to receive emails after 9 March:
<string>[email protected]</string>
</array>
<key>FullUserName</key>
<string>Warwick at Sandcastle Consulting</string>
<key>Hostname</key>
<string>pop3.paradise.net.nz</string>
<key>IsFirstTimeSync</key>
<string>YES</string>
<key>JunkMailboxName</key>
<string>Junk</string>
<key>NotesMailboxName</key>
<string>Notes</string>
<key>PortNumber</key>
<integer>110</integer>
<key>SMTPIdentifier</key>
<string>smtp.paradise.net.nz</string>
<key>SentMessagesMailboxName</key>
<string>Sent Messages</string>
<key>ToDosMailboxName</key>
<string>Apple Mail To Do</string>
<key>TrashMailboxName</key>
<string>Deleted Messages</string>
<key>UserAllowsInsecureAuthentication</key>
<true/>
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<string>[email protected]</string>
<key>ConfigureDynamically</key>
<true/>
<key>Hostname</key>
<string>smtp.paradise.net.nz</string>
<key>MaxMessageBytes</key>
<integer>31457280</integer>
<key>PortNumber</key>
<integer>25</integer>
<key>UserAllowsInsecureAuthentication</key>
<false/>
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I have found a fix - delete all the emails using the webmail account. Obviously there was something in one of the emails that was generating an error somewhere - whether on the client or server I am no closer to knowing.
But once all emails were deleted, then test messages started flowing.
Now why didn't I try that a week ago. Ho hum!

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Greetings!
I can surf the web over my ethernet connection, but Mail can't download email over the same connection.
Does anybody have any idea what is going on?
Thanks very much in advance.
Kevin

Hello Kevin.
What does “Mail can't download email” mean? What’s the problem exactly? Is it that Mail doesn’t check for mail on this account, or that it checks but downloads nothing, or what? What type of mail account is this (POP, IMAP, .Mac)? What error messages do you get, if any? More info, please.
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